Spolsky, Bernard
Measured words / Bernard Spolsky - 402 p. - Oxford applied linguistics .
PART ONE : The history of the objective language test 1. The encroaching power of examinations 2. The new-type language test : 1913-1935 3. Spreading the psychometric hegemony 4. New technological and consumer protection 5. Language testing goes to war : 1940-1945 6. Prognostication and aptitude : 1925-1960 7. Language testing in the national interest 8. Testing goes professional 9. Language testing triumphant : 1945-1965 PART TWO : TOEFL and the rise of the transatlantic English testing industry 11. English tests for foreigners : 1945-1960 12. The ides of TOEFL 13. TOEFL : gestation 14. The birth of TOEFL 15. Action inthe boardrooms 16. TOEFL in action 17. Dividing up the pot 18. The English testing industry 19. The Cambridge-Princeton test race 20. Jubilee: an envoi
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Ingles--linguistica aplicada
Measured words / Bernard Spolsky - 402 p. - Oxford applied linguistics .
PART ONE : The history of the objective language test 1. The encroaching power of examinations 2. The new-type language test : 1913-1935 3. Spreading the psychometric hegemony 4. New technological and consumer protection 5. Language testing goes to war : 1940-1945 6. Prognostication and aptitude : 1925-1960 7. Language testing in the national interest 8. Testing goes professional 9. Language testing triumphant : 1945-1965 PART TWO : TOEFL and the rise of the transatlantic English testing industry 11. English tests for foreigners : 1945-1960 12. The ides of TOEFL 13. TOEFL : gestation 14. The birth of TOEFL 15. Action inthe boardrooms 16. TOEFL in action 17. Dividing up the pot 18. The English testing industry 19. The Cambridge-Princeton test race 20. Jubilee: an envoi
0-19-437201-4
Lenguaje y lenguas
Ingles--linguistica aplicada